This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement … Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I show that emigration had a significant short-run impact on real wages … in the source country. In particular, emigration led to a change in the wage distribution between young and old workers …

the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to show that emigration significantly changed the wage distribution in the … calibration of a structural model of labor demand, I find that over the period of five years emigration increased the wages of … significant effect of emigration on the wage distribution between high-skilled and low-skilled workers. …

. This paper addresses the question whether such an emigration wave changes the wage distribution in the source country. In a … theoretical model of a labor market I show that some groups of stayers gain, while others lose from emigration. This outcome …. Using microdata from Lithuania, I simulate the post-2004 emigration wave based on the theoretical model and calculate the …

member states. Using data from the Lithuanian Household Budget Survey and the Irish Census, I find that emigration had a … point increase in the emigration rate increases the real wage of men on average by 1%. Several robustness checks confirm …

. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data … from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant … positive effect on the wages of stayers. A one percentage-point increase in the emigration rate predicts a 0.67% increase in …